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cuirassier::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | cavalryman, trooper |
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By 1705, the Holy Roman Emperor's personal forces in Austria included twenty cuirassier regiments.
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Imperial Russia formed its own cuirassier regiments in 1732, including a Leib Guards regiment.
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The Russian cuirassier units took part in the Russo-Turkish War.
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Napoleon promptly responded by ordering a counter-attack by the cuirassier brigades of Farine and Travers and Jaquinot's two lancer regiments in the I Corps light cavalry division.
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- A cavalryman equipped with a cuirass
- Cuirassiers were mounted cavalry soldiers equipped with armour and firearms, first appearing in late 15th-century Europe. They were the successors of the medieval armoured knights. This French term means "the one with a cuirass" (cuirasse), the breastplate armour which they wore.
- Heavy cavalry equipped with three-quarter length armour and armed with carbine, pistols and sword. Main article
